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Wow, just like whatever.

To me, “You’re welcome” sounds odd and stuffy. Not to mention that it’s rather meaningless (as in, what does it mean in that context, anyway?).

In Spanish and French, you would say “It’s nothing,” which is equivalent to “No problem.” “You’re welcome” (or “be welcome”) is reserved for when people actually come to visit. If I’m responding to someone who just said “Thank you,” I don’t necessarily want them to visit.

It’s silly, IMO, to get upset over people who say “No problem” instead of the dated phrase “You’re welcome.”

I am an office manager/PR manager/jack of all trades and when an employee asks me to do something like change their direct deposit or brings me a new W4 just before I'm submitting PR, or look up their PTO balance, answer time card/hours questions or their tax withholding questions and they say “Thank you”, I typically say, “You’re welcome” but often also say something like “Glad to help” or the dreaded “No problem” esp. when they continue to thank me as if I’d done something special. By saying “No problem” it’s my way of saying “It’s no problem” because it is my job to help them and therefore not a problem to help them. It was the same when I worked in retail, and I don’t get why this is offensive.

Now if I said, “you’re damned right to thank me, be thankful I took the time out of my busy schedule, you having interrupted me from other more important tasks just to deal with you, you unwashed slob and from someone well beneath my station in life”, well, that could be a problem and offensive. ;),

A Skipper of an AcDu Navy combatant One Guy knew would ream any sailor out for saying “No Problem” to him. “Oh, so it wasn’t a problem for you to do what it was I told you to do? That’s great. So happy to hear it. I was just so worried just then, thinking I might have put you out.”